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lSpecification. of Letters Patent.

Patente@ Feb. 15, 1916.

,Application led February 15, 1913. l Serial No. 748,611.-

To all whomI it may concern: i

Be it known that I,.GEORGE J. PIKE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the countyA ofKent and State of Michigan, useful Improvements in I-Iolders for Tumblers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to holders for tumblers or drinking cups, and its object is to provide a device of that character which shall be simple and economical in construction, to which such tumbler may be applied easily and without risk of fracturing, by which it may be securely but yieldably held, and from which it may be readily removed. This obj ect is attained by, and my invention finds a preferable embodiment in, the holder hereinafter described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my holder with a glass tumbler held thereby; Fig. 2 is a like view tumbler removed, its position before removal and the then position of theholding spring member being indicated in broken lines. Fig. 3 is a plan view of my holder; Fig. 4 is a like view of the same, but illustrating the Yholding spring member turned to another position; and Fig. 5 is a view in perspective of a variant form of base illustrating the detachable connection of the support.

A support in the form of a wire rod in the construction shown, has at the top a horizontally disposed ring portion 2 and a vertical shank portion 3 descending in the aXial line of the ring. This support is fastened to a suitable base portion 4 as by a threaded nut 5 turned on a screw rod 6 carried by the base 4. This base may be in form a screwplate, as shown, pierced at 7 for screws 8 for fastening the device to a vertical surface, or as shown in Fig. 5 to a horizontal surface.

A horizontally compressible tumblerholder spring 9 pierced at its middle 10 for the passage of the shank portion 3 therethrough, is attached at its ends to diametrically opposite points of the ring portion 2, as by turning the ends 12 ofthe spring member over and around the ring as shown.v

The ring is provided with recesses 11 as shown adapted to receive the turned lends 12 and hold the spring member 9 from turning around the shank 3: but these ends may have invented neit/.and the-ring 2 with the clined to the transverse portion 14 of the of the same, but with the l be released from such recesses by forcibly turning themember 9 to another posi-v tion as may be desired.y Preferably the portion 13 .of the' supporting rod-:which connects vertical shank 3 is inscrew rod 6 (as shown in all the views except Fig. 5,) at an angle'of about forty-five degrees as appears in Figs. 3 and 4, in order that the spring member 9 may be turned to either of the preferred positions shown in Figs. 3 and 4. A stop 15, which may be the nut 5 as shown, limits the downward movement of the spring member 9 when laterally compressed and thus prevents its being broken. Thisspring member may, intermediate its ends and middle portion, be concavo-conveX in horizontal section, the better to engage the tumbler and also to stien its spring action. A tumbler 16 being.

thrust on my holder, bottom side up, compresses the spring member laterally, this member thus retaining the tumbler in yieldable holding engagement.

Not confining myself to details of construction shown or described, I claim:

1. In a holder for tumblers, a support having at its upper end a horizontal ring, and a leaf spring attached at its ends to the ring on its opposite sides and adapted to yieldingly engage the interior surface of a tumbler.

2. In a holder for tumblers, a support, and a leaf spring attached at its ends to the supportand having an opening through its middle portion for the free passage of the support therethrough and adapted to yieldingly engage the interior surface of a tumbler, the spring being adapted to be by the tumblers compressed in a direction transverse to the support, its middle portion being thus moved along the support away from the point of attachment of the spring to the support.

3. In a holder for tumblers, a support having at its upper end a horizontal ring, and a leaf spring attached at its ends to the ring on its opposite sides and having an port and adapted to yieldingly engage the interior surface of a tumbler, and a stop on the support to limit the downward Inovea support, and a leaf spring'attached atits ends to the supment or" the spring, the spring'being adapted adapted to enter such recess and to be releasably held therein, said spring being` adapted to yieldingly engage the interior surface of a tumbler. 15 In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing` witnesses.

GEORGE J. PIKE. Vitnesses CYRUS W. RICE, GETA V. GODWIN.

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